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Birth control is designed to prevent pregnancy, not help you get pregnant.
Birth control pills will help regulate the menstrual cycle.
Birth control can help to make your period lighter, and a tad quicker.
I think what you're referring to is the birth control pill. Doctors sometimes prescribe the birth control pill to women who have irregular periods in order to help get their periods regular. There is no specific pill out there strictly for periods, unless you are thinking of Midol which is used to combat PMS symptoms like cramps.
if you aren't terribly late, it could possibly be normal. yasmin is also designed to help make periods easier in addition to birth control. periods may be slightly late since they will be less painful and shorter.
The estrogen replacement therapy is one of the ways that is recommeneded by doctors to control overly heavy periods. This treatement is most commonly done through the use of birth control pills.
If you have problem periods they can help regulate them and they also help with PMS. I took them for years for those very reasons. Thank God they were invented in my life time.
Birth control pills are meant to help prevent pregnancy. That is what they're designed to do.
You will probably have one next month. It sounds like you are having irregular periods. Going on the birth-control pill can often help sort this out and make your periods more regualr.
Women who are still having periods but who have annoying menopausal symptoms may take low-dose birth control pills to ease the problems; this treatment has been approved by the FDA for perimenopausal symptoms in women under age 55
I personally like Lowestrin21. Your less likely to gain weight on lowestrin21. It can also help your acne. Also your periods become lighter. And you may even skip a few periods. I had no bad side effects at all.
You need birth control so you do not get pregnant also to thin out your period or help with cramps